Giving an Old Ubuntu PC a Second Life With Apache Guacamole
How I reused an aging x64 Ubuntu PC as a browser-accessible development machine with Apache Guacamole, without consuming more resources in my Proxmox homelab.
Lab
Experiment notes
Reports from the workshop: what I tried, what held, and what I would change.
Admitting I Don't Know in the Age of AI
Why working with AI makes uncertainty, good questions, explicit assumptions, and verification essential to reliable software engineering decisions and outcomes.
Notion2Ical: Turning Notion Tasks Into a Calendar Feed
How a personal Notion companion service became Notion2Ical, a small, tested .NET library that keeps open tasks visible through a standard iCalendar feed.
How I Used Codex to Cut My AWS Costs
A practical story about using Codex to assess AWS spend, tune S3 lifecycle policies, absorb a transition spike, and reduce recurring cloud costs safely.
Five Years in a Learning Organization
A personal reflection on five years at Intré as a learning organization, through guilds, community, AI, and a software culture built around growth over time.
Managing Nintendo Switch Screen Time with Home Assistant
A Home Assistant and Node-RED workflow that grants Nintendo Switch screen time explicitly, resets exceptions overnight, and keeps family rules visible.